Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Do not evaluate things when you feel happiness

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

Without improving our mind there is no way to solve our human problems.

Why don't we all just get a long-neck?

Under each station of the real, another glimmers.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.

Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.